Dukkha

Dukkha ( Pali दुक्ख; sanskrit दुःख duhkha hard to bear ') is a key concept in Buddhism, which is usually translated as "suffering". He is to be distinguished from dukkhatā, the stressfulness. In the old traditional in the Pali canon Buddhist suttas dukkha is mentioned as one of the three characteristics of existence (ti - Lakkhana ) and as the first of the " Four Noble Truths " ( ariyasacca ). This is dukkha, at least in Theravada Buddhism, the central concept for understanding Siddhartha Gautama Buddha teaching:

" Only one thing I teach now as before: The suffering and the end of suffering. "

The Pali word dukkha is in common parlance for suffering, grief, misery, in contrast to sukha, well-being, contentment, happiness means. So the exciting quality of all the experiences that are accompanied by craving, attachment and ego: dukkha suffering, Leidunterworfensein, inadequacy, misery, evil, pain, injury, dissatisfaction figuratively means.

Dukkha regarded as a universal characteristic of all phenomena; because things are impermanent, they are unreliable and can never satisfy us. The inherent decay and dissolution of things is dukkha. In the context of the Four Noble Truths three aspects of dukkha are considered:

Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, sickness is dukkha, death is dukkha; Worry, sadness, pain, malaise are dukkha. With someone to be together, the one does not love, is dukkha. To be separated from the one you love is dukkha. Not to get what one wants is dukkha.

As an expression of the first of the Four Noble Truths, dukkha contains more in-depth understanding of imperfection, impermanence, nothingness and unreality.

According to Buddhist philosophy, a living being ( an individual) is a combination of constantly changing physical and mental forces or energies, which is classified into five groups. These five groups ( five skandhas; Sanskrit: pañca upādānaskandhāḥ; Pāli: khandha ) can also by adhering dukkha arise.

In the English language is dukkha usually translated as suffering or stress.